surveillance

Pierluigi Paganini July 05, 2015
Anonymous India hacked BSNL website and compromised more than 30 Million records

Anonymous India hacked the BSNL Telecommunications Journal website and claims to have compromised more than 30 million records. The website of the BSNL Telecommunications Journal has been hacked by the hacktivists of the Indian Anonymous arm named AnonOpsIndia. Anonymous India the BSNL journal website to protest against the surveillance programs operated by the Indian Government. […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2015
ProxyHam, a killer application to protect online anonymity

ProxyHam is a hardware device designed by a group of researchers to allow anonymous connections to Wi-Fi from about 2.5 Miles away. Security researcher Benjamin Caudill has designed a device that allows to keep anonymous users online experience, an amazing system for the anonymity of whistleblowers, journalists and dissidents. Caudill named his device ProxyHam, it’s a “hardware […]

Pierluigi Paganini July 02, 2015
Unknowns are cloning and booby trapping hundreds of Dark Web sites

Founder of the ahmia.fi project reported that someone is cloning and booby trapping hundreds of Dark Web sites and is re-writing some of the content. The “ahmia.fi” project census Dark Web websites, aka hidden services, by providing search engine functionalities by indexing the content present on the Tor network. Nurmi noticed an anomalous number of clones of hundreds […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 25, 2015
Facebook’s astonishing AI algorithm in Facial Recognition

Facebook developed an astonishing algorithm for facial recognition considered as the latest Artificial Intelligence step, it’s name is PIPER. Artificial Intelligence has been playing an important role to offer better and outstanding features in applications and a lot of computer giants and agencies have spent huge amount of money to acquire more and more. Facebook […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 21, 2015
Electronic Frontier Foundation – WhatsApp ranked as the worst at protecting users’ privacy

The Electronic Frontier Foundation published the “Who Has Your Back? 2015” report that ranked WhatsApp ranked as the worst in protecting users’ privacy. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has published its annual report “Who Has Your Back? 2015: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests” that analyzes how private companies handlesusers data with specific focus on Government surveillance. “Which […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 06, 2015
A report shows that the NSA is in a search for hackers

The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama approved the law to give to NSA wider powers, what does it means for Americans? The President of the United States of America, Barack Obama approved the law to give to NSA wider powers, where the NSA is able to spy internet traffic in search […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 03, 2015
Torus, a milestone in massive surveillance

“Torus” a name that may seem insignificant to many, but that instead revealed a huge expansion in surveillance of FiveEyes alliance. The researcher Duncan Campbell analyzed a document leaked by the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden focusing his investigation on the a term used in the secret slides that could have revealed a massive increase in the […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 23, 2015
Astoria, the Tor client designed to beat the NSA surveillance

A team of security researchers announced to have developed Astoria, a new Tor client designed to beat the NSA and reduce the efficiency of timing attacks. Tor and Deep web are becoming terms even popular among Internet users, the use of anonymizing network is constantly increasing for this reason intelligence agencies are focusing their efforts in its monitoring. […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 26, 2015
Dark Web Email Service SIGAINT hacked by the Intelligence

The Dark Web email service SIGAINT suffered a major attack that involved 70  exit nodes, a circumstance that suggests Government operation. Law enforcement and Intelligence agencies are always involved in the infiltration of Darknets and related services with the primary intent to monitor bad actors and de-anonymize users. The Tor-Based Dark Web Email Service SIGAINT is one […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 25, 2015
Someone in the BND was helping the NSA, it’s scandal!

According new revelations published by the Der Spiegel the German intelligence agency BND helped NSA in monitoring European politicians. We discussed several times of the aggressive cyber espionage campaigns run by the US intelligence and its allies of Five Eyes (Canada, UK, New Zeland, Australia and, of course, the US). The Intelligence targeted private companies and entities worldwide in order to establish a dominance in the cyberspace. […]